Maybe Geo , but we are only 1-2 injuries away from a truly disastrous campaign

We have no creative flair and I'll be shocked if we break 20 points more than 7-8 times this season

So our defence will need to win a lot of games , and if our past is a true indicator of the future that means a pretty dim season

You could possibly be right maybe..then again it's you..

Care to Rank the Rosters...?

We don't have one player who would be ranked in the Top 5 in his position in the NRL

Nofoaluma would surely be in the top 5 wingers

And don't underestimate Suli, I think that he might have a breakout year and be a top 5 centre

He'd be thereabouts based on his first 12 weeks of 2017 , but he was disappointing in the back end (yes I realize he was injured ) and he been similar vein of form for the last few seasons , great start to the season and drops off noticeably at the back end of seasons

He might have a breakout year Ben , but you could say that about every player in the NRL , based on 2017 he was pretty good , but not Top 5 or even Top 10

It depends on what a club values. In terms of metre eaters he and Mansour are the best in the game. DWZ is in the same category of winger but Nofo is streets ahead of him - DWZ can't even bloody catch!

Vunivalu, Radradra, Rapana and Holmes are all clearly ahead of him but then it really becomes a matter of style preference with wingers. Cotric won't be a winger long term, at the moment he's a great young player that just happens to have been plonked on the wing.

As I wrote the below I thought. Where would Tim Sheens be in this list? Probably below 10.... However I think he was probably the League's best playmaking idea coach. The set plays he came up with were extraordinary. His coaching had too many gaps, he got too many basic things wrong.... But his playbook was legendary.

I must say Green making the finals with Scott and JT was the effort of the year. Flanagan and Arthurs have put up with so much stuff that they have shown such metal... I just cannot fault them.
Bellamy is next. Consistently turns out a top Melbourne side. I just don't know how he does it, but I don't know if he can do it without the Storm's top 3 and master training. Next is Robinson, the Roosters even with cap roarting should not be a top 4 side as often as they have been under him. He clearly outshone Brian Caravan. Rounding out these masters is Bennett, I need say more.
Des Haslier is next. He has had a winning formula with Manly and it did not take full effect at Canterbury, but I have no doubt he will be a top 4 coach again.

Cleary comes next. He is a LONG way behind Haslier and is an above average coach. He has the right attitude and in the right side he can and has made the top 4. But he is not like the others above him. I think he doesn't have that much talent as them.

As I wrote the below I thought. Where would Tim Sheens be in this list? Probably below 10.... However I think he was probably the League's best playmaking idea coach. The set plays he came up with were extraordinary. His coaching had too many gaps, he got too many basic things wrong.... But his playbook was legendary.

I must say Green making the finals with Scott and JT was the effort of the year. Flanagan and Arthurs have put up with so much stuff that they have shown such metal... I just cannot fault them.
Bellamy is next. Consistently turns out a top Melbourne side. I just don't know how he does it, but I don't know if he can do it without the Storm's top 3 and master training. Next is Robinson, the Roosters even with cap roarting should not be a top 4 side as often as they have been under him. He clearly outshone Brian Caravan. Rounding out these masters is Bennett, I need say more.
Des Haslier is next. He has had a winning formula with Manly and it did not take full effect at Canterbury, but I have no doubt he will be a top 4 coach again.

Cleary comes next. He is a LONG way behind Haslier and is an above average coach. He has the right attitude and in the right side he can and has made the top 4. But he is not like the others above him. I think he doesn't have that much talent as them.

Brennan is very highly regarded as a 'coach' but I'm not to sure how he is with people management... I'm expecting him to have his troops in good shape at the start of the season and wont be surprised to see the Titans in the Top 8 for a good part of the year.

Obviously once Jared Hayne decides to voice his opinions the Titans season will go off the rails.

"Did someone buy you the internet hero play book for Christmas and you've only just started reading it?" - Nelson 21/04/2017

Brennan is very highly regarded as a 'coach' but I'm not to sure how he is with people management... I'm expecting him to have his troops in good shape at the start of the season and wont be surprised to see the Titans in the Top 8 for a good part of the year.

Obviously once Jared Hayne decides to voice his opinions the Titans season will go off the rails.

I'm hoping we will see the Hayne Stain back at the Eels Watto , Titans don't need to be derailed but Parra being derailed wouldn't harm our chances

Watching NZ efforts at the world cup, I wonder whether it was JT that invented Taylorball, or whether he just handed the attacking reins over to Kidwell

You see the head to head:
Shawn Johnson vs H Raiwalui ???
RTS vs Kev Naiqama!

Considering that Kidwell was the common factor with Taylor and the coach before him. I think we need to say that this guy was not identified as a DUD. I understood that he was working on our defense not our offense though.

1 Bellamy ...easily by far but has superstars, gift cards,boats and gate takings at his disposal
2 Green ...very consistent and has stars all over the park, pity he is a Qlder
3 Arthurs...great style and gets the best out of players except when Norman is on a Coke binge.
4 Bennett ...best coach ever but way past it now, losing his aura
5 Flanagan ....thanks to the peptides, they won a grand final
6 Robinson...very astute coach with plenty of paper bags at his disposal
7 Cleary....good coach who got the Warriors to a GF, that's an achievement in itself
8 MCGregor....always under pressure at the start of the season, delivers and when the pressure is off at seasons end, the wheels fall off
9 Barrett...looks like a coach who has had a bong or two before a match starts
10 Stuart...when he isn't complaining about referees his team is firing but 90% of the time he is complaining.
11 Griffin...when Gould isn't in his ear telling him how to coach he goes ok
12 Brown...no excuses next year, if they start losing he might start slapping his players around
13 Seibold...will find out
14 Brennan....will find out
15 Pay...will find out
16 kearney ....by a mile, if he trained Winx she would lose every start